Advertising-sign or the like.



No. 882,949. I PATENTED MAR. 24, 1908."

s. KROTOSCHIIN.

ADVERTISING SIGN OR THE LIKE. urmcuxon rxnnn Jun: 21,1907.

SIMON KROTOSGHIN, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

ADVERTISING-SIGN OR THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed June 21, 1907. Serial No. 380,063.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON Knorosoi-inv, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing in Leipzig, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Advertising-Signs or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising signs or the like made of separate letters or parts connected together.

The production of advertising inscriptions on glass or the like by means of separate letters, made of glass, metal or the like, which are fixed on the glass or other support, is Well known. The difference between the present invention and these known devices is that the different letters or the different parts are joined together by special connecting pieces, so that the sign made out of the different parts forms an integral construction and can e fixed in a suitable place by means of side supports or chains or the like. Hereby the necessity of fixing the different parts to the base support is dispensed with. Moreover it is possible to arrange the sign behind glass, for example behind a shop-window. Not only can the sign be more easily arranged, but more easily removed, if it appears necessary. The costs of production are considerably less than in the case of signs composed of porcelain, glass or metal letters, as the different parts of the same may be made of cardboard or similar inexpensive material. This cheaper material has at the same time the advantage of allowing greater variety in regard to form and color.

Several forms of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 represents a sign composed of four letters (S O L O) the different letters being joined together by cross pieces. The connection is effected by means of hooks ar ranged on the cross-pieces and eyes or lugs on the letters. In this method of fixing strong rods are arranged at both ends of the sign, which are of such a length as is necessary for fixing the sign in a suitable place,

for example to the wooden frame of the shop-- window, in which the S O L 0 sign is to be fixed.

Fig. 2 represents a sign made out of five different letters. The different letters are fixed on chains in a manner suitable for placing the letters. The different chains are attached to the same supporting piece. By

invention according to Fig. 2 the curve can have any desired form given to it by the difference in the length of the connecting pieces of chains employed for suspending the different parts. With the form illustrated in Fig. 3 a curve, the middle of which is lower than the ends is produced at once.

A special form of the invention consists in making the connecting pieces for the different parts out of transparent or translucent material for example, celluloid, toughened casein, gelatin or the like. This form of the invention is especially suitable if the advertising sign is to be hung in the shopwindow, as thereby the exclusion of the light is restricted as much as possible; besides which the appearance of the sign is improved, as the method of fixing is not immediately seen.

With the form of the invention according to Fig. 2 the piece on which the different letters are suspended may also be furnished with an inscription. The suspension piece might also be in the form of a useful object, for example that of a pencil, a cigarette, a cigar or the like. Again with this form of the invention several suspension pieces with different parts suspended thereon could be arranged one above the other or adjacently to one another.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In advertising signs a support for the single letters adapted to be alined to the sign reading, which consists of suitable lengths of flexible members made of transparent material with hooks at their ends engaging eyes in the letters substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SIMON KROTOSCHIN.

In the presence of MAX MATTHAI, RUDULPH FRIcKE. 

